Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

My mom is from Jamaica and she was going to school in the morning, and in the evening she was working, and at night she would go to night school and then come in and go to sleep. So she would never watch the news and stuff like that and she didn't know what crack was. She didn't know nothing about it, but when I told her I was selling crack, she threatened to kick me out of the house. And then I just started paying for stuff - paying her bills and giving her money, so she'd just tell me to be careful because there was nothing she could do to stop it.

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.

I mean, it's not just the rappers, you know what i'm saying? People want to attack anybody that's a large figure, you know what I'm saying? They did it to [Michael] Jordan, they did it to [Mike] Tyson, they did it to Bill Cosby, you know what I'm saying? They're gonna' attack you if you on top.

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.

The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese.

Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.